Would you like to work in Dun's Library?
The
Heritage Centre is now looking for two library interns to help with our current
project to catalogue the historic Dun’s Library.
Dun’s
Library was founded in 1713 and is a historical medical library containing
about 30,000 items. The aim of the current project is to create an online
catalogue of the holdings, with high quality standardized records. The two new
interns will be working on our pre-1800 collection of medical and other
scientific texts.
As
well as gaining experience in library cataloguing the interns will also be
involved in our public engagement programme, including this blog, along with providing
reading room support and answering enquiries. These internships are an ideal opportunity for someone who has recently completed, or
is intending to complete, post-graduate library training, and wants to gain
some first hand experience of library work.
You
can read what two of our previous library interns thought about the experience
of working in RCPI’s Heritage Centre here and here.